Clues from the Downtown Santa Rosa Puzzle Hunt

I don't know if anybody is curious about the how the clues turned out for the "puzzle hunt" that Santa Rosa hosted on the 5th, but some friends of mine did go and attempt to participate. They were not having any fun, so left after about fourty-five minutes and came over to visit me. They said some people who worked with the BANG had come up and joined them, but left disappointed fairly quickly. Here are the clues they were given, in pdf format:

Downtown Santa Rosa Puzzle Hunt Clues.pdf

Looking over them, I can only figure out where to look for one ("Simon's fingers...") and can understand why it would be frustrating and no fun. The sad thing is that this almost indelibly prints upon the local mind a bad impression of what a puzzle hunt is.

How the meta works, I can only guess at. Perhaps the numbers associated with each of the correct answers formed some sort of pattern, say prime numbers for example, that could be continued once more, and the answer associated with that number was the meta solution.

Anyway, I hope the organizer will have learned a few things from this one and if it is to be put on again next year, will improve tremendously. Or at least, he'll change the name to a more accurate description.